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Queer   /kwɪr/   Listen
adjective
Queer  adj.  (compar. queerer; superl. queerest)  
1.
At variance with what is usual or normal; differing in some odd way from what is ordinary; odd; singular; strange; whimsical; as, a queer story or act. " A queer look."
2.
Mysterious; suspicious; questionable; as, a queer transaction. (Colloq.)
3.
Homosexual. (disparaging and offensive)


noun
Queer  n.  
1.
Counterfeit money. (Slang)
2.
A homosexual. (disparaging and offensive)
To shove the queer, to put counterfeit money in circulation. (Slang)


verb
Queer  v. t.  
1.
To puzzle. (Prov. Eng. or Slang)
2.
To ridicule; to banter; to rally. (Slang)
3.
To spoil the effect or success of, as by ridicule; to throw a wet blanket on; to spoil. (Slang)





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"Queer" Quotes from Famous Books



... her queer situation: hour after hour passed, and the first spasmodic impulse of womanly decorum—not to let the sun go down upon her present improper state—was quite controllable. She could regard the strange contingency that had arisen with something like philosophy. The day slipped by: ...
— Two on a Tower • Thomas Hardy
... Fellows in Bristol are numbers, some Who so modish are grown, that they think plain sense cumbersome; And lest they should seem to be queer or ridiculous, They affect to believe neither ...
— The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Vol I and II • Samuel Taylor Coleridge
... knock at the street-door; a very decided application of the queer, twisted knocker. Leslie roused herself: not a beggar's tap that; none of the janitors; and this was not Dr. Murdoch's or Dr. Ware's hour: the girl was accurate in taps and footsteps. Some one was shown ...
— Girlhood and Womanhood - The Story of some Fortunes and Misfortunes • Sarah Tytler
... it consisted mainly of the vision of plenty of cigars and brandy and water and newspapers, and a cane-bottomed arm-chair of the right inclination, from which he could stretch his legs. Nevertheless it seemed to him he had never seen an interior that was so much an interior as this queer corridor-shaped drawing-room of his new-found kinswoman; he had never felt himself in the presence of so much organised privacy or of so many objects that spoke of habits and tastes. Most of the people he had hitherto known had no tastes; they ...
— The Bostonians, Vol. I (of II) • Henry James
... his beard, which was of iron-grey colour and reached down to his waist. His garb was composed of rags, tied to his body by the free use of rope. He once told my mother that he had more than once changed clothes with a scarecrow. Sometimes this queer person would never be seen by mortal man for months together, unless it were that I disturbed his solitude occasionally; but then, of course, I was only a boy. "Luke" had a bad name amongst us lads. I know people couldn't fairly ...
— Adventures and Recollections • Bill o'th' Hoylus End


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